John Baldessari Movies
- 2012
A Brief History of John Baldessari
A Brief History of John Baldessari62012HD
The epic life of a world-class artist, jammed into six minutes.
- 1972
Baldessari Sings LeWitt
Baldessari Sings LeWitt01972HD
A tribute to fellow artist Sol LeWitt, Baldessari sings lines from LeWitt's thirty-five statements on conceptual art to the tune of popular songs.
- 1990
John Baldessari: Some Stories
John Baldessari: Some Stories01990HD
Presented without commentary, this film reveals the thinking behind the work of John Baldessari over the course of his career, and provides clues to...
- 1972
Teaching a Plant the Alphabet
Teaching a Plant the Alphabet01972HD
“[A] rather perverse exercise in futility,” this tape documents Baldessari’s response to Joseph Beuys’s influential...
- 1971
I Am Making Art
I Am Making Art01971HD
In an ironic reference to body art, process art and performance, Baldessari challenges definitions of the content and execution of art-making....
- 1977
Six Colorful Inside Jobs
Six Colorful Inside Jobs01977HD
Seen from a bird's eye view, a figure paints the walls and floor of a windowless room six times in six days, using each of the primary and secondary...
- 1972
Title
Title01972HD
Baldessari progresses from simple, static images, such as a rock in an empty room, to complex narrative scenes, like a woman eavesdropping on her...
- 1971
Walking Forward-Running Past
Walking Forward-Running Past01971HD
In Walking Forward-Running Past, Baldessari ingeniously employs photography and video to examine and ultimately deconstruct film. In this conceptual...
- 1971
Black Out
Black Out01971HD
A film by John Baldessari
- 1970
Cremation
Cremation01970HD
John Baldessari is today known as one of the leading conceptual artists of his generation, using found or appropriated images and exploring the...
- 1971
Folding Hat
Folding Hat01971HD
'Folding Hat' is a deadpan conceptual exercise that represents a dashed attempt to rescue an object from the meaning assigned to it. Whistling an...
- 1972
Inventory
Inventory01972HD
In a sly twist on the methodology of the 18th-century "philosophes" who classified the laws and history of the world in massive encyclopedias,...
- 1979
John Baldessari: An Interview
John Baldessari: An Interview01979HD
From his photo-text canvases in the 1960s to his video works in the 1970s to his installations in the 1980s, John Baldessari’s (b.1931) varied...
- 1973
The Meaning of Various News Photos to Ed Henderson
The Meaning of Various News Photos to Ed Henderson01973HD
Baldessari introduces eight news photos to Ed Henderson — ranging in subject matter from geese at the zoo to an accidental electrocution...
- 1971
I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art
I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art01971HD
In 1971, Baldessari was commissioned by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada to create an original, on-site work. Unable to make the...
- 1971
New York City Post Card Painting
New York City Post Card Painting01971HD
A short film by John Baldessari
- 1974
Ice Cubes Sliding
Ice Cubes Sliding01974HD
A film by John Baldessari
- 1970
Ed Henderson Suggests Sound Tracks for Photographs
Ed Henderson Suggests Sound Tracks for Photographs01970HD
Baldessari has commented that he is "less interested in the form art takes than the meaning an image evokes." In Ed Henderson Suggests Sound Tracks...
- 1973
Ed Henderson Reconstructs Movie Scenarios
Ed Henderson Reconstructs Movie Scenarios01973HD
Baldessari has Ed Henderson examine obscure movie stills and attempt to reconstruct the films' narratives.
- 1973
Four Short Films
Four Short Films01973HD
Contemporaneous to his best-known video works, these Super-8mm films represent Baldessari's conceptual engagement with motion picture film, pointing...